Is it true that Jesus is a plagiarism of the Egyptian story of Horus?

Question

I just recently saw a movie about how Jesus's whole story is just a plageristic copy of an Egyptian God named Horus who's life is based upon the occurances of our atrological events with the sun. If you know more about this subject, I'm looking for more back-up information. Where can I find it?

I watched this ZEITGEIST movie on Google Videos and it has really messed up my faith.

Answer 1

Yes, true. There were actually several virgin-borne, miracle-working, crucified savior gods, long before Jesus was invented.

Read here for more unbiased information about the Jesus and Horus parallels: http://www.religioustolerance.org/chr_jcpa5.htm

Answer 2

Comparing different ancient religions to each other is like an ink blot test. You see similarities if you want to, and you don't see any similarities if you don't want to.

People have alleged that Christianity came from many different ancient religions. Obviously all of the theories cannot simultaneously be true.

There is no "hard" evidence anywhere of the various diverse Horus stories evolving into the New Testament. No one has, as of yet, found any documentation, so it is all speculation.


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Of all the pagan copycat candidates, this is the last couple -- other than Buddha -- that look to be a major threat. Egypt after all is not far from Palestine, and Jews did live in Egypt; it is not theoretically improbable that they could steal an idea for a Jesus from this place. But did they? The field is rife with claims, but as usual a plate of fudge stands in the middle. There is a great deal of filching of Christian terms to describe Egyptian events (not all of it with bad intentions) and a great deal of non-citation of sources for fabulous claims. This being the case, we here announce again that this will be our last pagan copycat item for a while until someone in the Acharya S/Freke and Gandy camp steps forward and provides some better documentation that 18th-19th century rumormongers.

So let's get to some of these claims. I'm going to mix the ones for Horus and Osiris together for convenience. These are from Achy's "Christ Conspiracy" [114-116]; oddly enough Freke and Gandy add nothing new and in fact only supplement a few of these....

Answer 3

Not many similarities, if any. I found the following from my favorite / most hated source, wikipedia

"Horus is an ancient god of the Ancient Egyptian religion, whose cult survived so long that he evolved dramatically over time and gained many names. The most well known name is the Greek Horus, representing the Egyptian Heru/Har, which is the basic element in most of the other names of Horus. Horus was so important that the Eye of Horus became an important Egyptian symbol of power. He had a man's body and a falcon's head. He only had one eye because after Osiris was murdered by his brother Set, Horus fought with Set for the throne of Egypt. In this battle Horus lost one of his eyes and later this became a sign of protection in Egypt. In one story he has said to have cut off his mother's head. Horus united Egypt and bestowed divinity upon the pharaoh."

Answer 4

The Jesus tale exhibits extensive similarities to different myths of the time (notably Horus, Mithra, Osiris, and Dionysus). there have been additionally over a dozen different deities and saviors who have been resurrected (usually after violent deaths). Christianity in simple terms instructed the tale the excellent, and controlled to get administration of the government below Constantine. With administration of the government, the ruling Christians have been waiting to stomp out competing (heretical) variations of Christianity and implement their doctrines. the tale of Jesus could be shown to be purely a delusion created to fulfill prophesy, cobbled jointly out of comments from the old testomony and previous gods and myths - created interior the forties and 50's via Paul (ne Saul of Tarsus) (who exhibited indicators of epilepsy and had delusions of Christ conversing to him), the different apostles, the unknown authors of the gospels interior the 70's or later, and numerous different persons. The stable evidence for that's overwhelming.

Answer 5

Oh. One small difference. Horus is a figment of imagination. Jesus is real. He lived. He healed the sick, opened blinded eyes, deaf ears, raised the dead, caused the lame to walk again, and then He died an ignoble death - because He loves you. And to prove He was exactly who He was, He rose from the dead, walked, talked, and ate with His followers.

He said: ".....you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, all over Judea and Samaria, even to the ends of the world." These were His last words. As they watched He was taken up and disappeared in a cloud. They stood there, staring into the empty sky. Suddenly two men appeared -- in white robes! They said, "You Galileans! --why do you just stand here looking up at an empty sky? This very Jesus who was taken up from among you to heaven will come as certainly -- and as mysteriously -- as He left." Acts 1:11 The Message

When that happens, I will see Jesus, son of the one true living God, not some imagined Egyptian whatever.

And when that happens, you will know, as I now know that He...."... being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. For this reason also, God highly exalted Him, and bestowed on Him the name which is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus EVERY KNEE WILL BOW, of those who are in heaven and on earth and under the earth,and that every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father." Phillipians 2:8-11

Answer 6

Even the 10 Commandments come from the Book of the Dead. The Jews lived in Ancient Egypt for over 400 years before Moses lead his followers out. After that, he came up with the 10 Commandments. The influence of the Ancient Egyptians helped him create the 10 Commandments, and yet he says that God gave it to him. Funny how they can't give the Egyptians any credit.

Answer 7

This is true - however, Christians will lie and say it is not. So, Horus was born to Isis, not as a "virgin" persay - but his conception was just as miraculous - Isis impregnated herself with a stone phallus after Orion was murdered. Horus' birth was witnessed by three gods, not three wise men. So, the story is the same, the details have been changed to distract the innocent...

Mithras, who was being worshipped at the time Jesus allegedly walked the earth, was born to a virgin in a manger, die and was buried in a rock tomb and was ressurected after three days. Sound familiar?

Answer 8

Most religions have a Jesus-type character, aka the martyr. In fact if you do a true comparison of the world's major religions, you will find that a large portion of them all have the same basic plot. This, at least to me, supports the notion of religion being an outmoded way of explaining the unexplained.

Answer 9

I'm not going to say yes straight out, but the two stories, as well as others mentioned here bear striking similarities. Plagarism? Maybe not, but it certainly seems co-opted, as are several other things in religions today.

Answer 10

No. Jesus is the One True Son of God. He is the salvation of the world. Horus was a myth.